Personally, I cannot see evidence of any compression in the .gif
file.

Neither can I. That's why I asked "not just limited???"

My bad.

When I looked at the file I did not think about what you had actually done,
adn as I did like the way it switched pictures continuously I didn't
compare the pictures as much as I would have done if it had kep still.

To my glance it looked like you might have used a very slight compression
to get rid of the highest peaks and then turned the gain up a bit, while in
reality you had turned the gain up a bit with limiting applied to avoid
digital clipping.

The point of uploading the image though was to debunk the baseless
claims that I am "severely dicking with the music" by doing this to my

I think that some of that misunderstanding could have been prevented if you
had not just said that you were batch normalizing all the tracks from a CD.
It actually took a while for you to explain what *you* meant by "batch" in
this case.

Normally batch whatever simply means that you've told the machine to do
whatever and then left it to do that instead of interactively telling it
to do the different steps requiered for whatever.

With most applications, batch normalizing would simply mean that the
application normalizes a whole bunch of files, one file at a time, in one
batch. It does not mean that the app first analyzes the whole batch of
files and then applies the same change to the whole batch, wich is what you
seem to mean.

Regards
/Jonas